Image is of Yemen seizing the first ship in its blockade of Israel (the Galaxy Leader) with a helicopter raid.
Alternate title: What If It Was The Bab El-Womandeb And It Was Just For The Ladies?
Ansarallah is a key component of the broader Resistance movement, backed by Iran, and has been a stalwart member in engineering the ongoing collapse of Zionism. It has steadily escalated both its rhetoric and, rarely nowadays, its actions, proving that the mythical "red line" might actually exist in the world after all, after going MIA in both Russia and China. It has been striking first Israel-owned ships heading through the Bab el-Mandeb - the strait that leads into the Red Sea and then to the Suez Canal - and, recently, has demonstrated its promise that any ships that intend to dock in Israel will be attacked. While this is really only half a blockade, the cost of going around Africa is significant, and Western insurance companies really don't like it when their ships get blasted by missiles and drones. Several shipping companies have already stated their intention to alter/stop shipping routes through the Red Sea, trying to prompt the West to find a "solution".
Despite US naval presence in the area, Yemen possesses the ability to strike the oil refining facilities of the Gulf monarchies, leaving the US in a very difficult position. If they attack Yemen, then not only do Western ships risk being attacked directly, but those oil refineries may go up in smoke depending on if they help the West - and global oil prices will skyrocket, in an already declining world economy - and it might cost several Western leaders their leadership positions, including Biden himself. A regional war could ultimately tumble into worldwide chaos.
Equally, however, the US cannot afford to lose Israel. It is the single most important American imperial outpost, perhaps alongside Taiwan. If Zionism is destroyed as a local destabilizing influence, then the Russia-China-Iran axis will find itself in a leadership position over the region. Israeli military losses in Gaza increase every single day as they advance further into the labyrinth death trap under the obligation to show some kind of military victory, with Hamas' strategy of attrition taking its toll. And Hezbollah sits there, having destroyed most of the border infrastructure, silently threatening the obliteration of Israel's infrastructure under the rain of a hundred thousand missiles.
As world attention gradually shifts away from the Gaza genocide, we continue to approach the brink.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Ok hear me out: Home Alone: Lost in Palestine
Needs more tunnel scenes of both kevin scouting around and setting up traps in the lead-up and during the chase, a spike trap scene that makes the lead bad guy reenact that one ace ventura scene with the spears to the knees, a glass bottle then a cooking pot then a concrete chunk all swinging from rope traps to clobber dipshits, at least one scene with a trampoline launching the comedic dipshit israeli of the group into a basket ball hoop for a slam dunk straight into a dangerous tunnel maze only to be forgotten about until the end credits, a scene involving the bad guys feelimg safe enough to take a potty break then getting a cheeky pipe bomb rolled under them by Kevin then leading them to do a silly double-take and screm-boom, haunted house esque scene with three pop-up surprises first two to get their guards down and final one armed with two RPDs dumping lead in them and a line plays from the origional home alone saying "keep the change, ya filthy animal, and finally a climax scene involving a tank staring down Kevin armed with an RPG and right as the tank commander says "fire" Kevin shoots the RPG straight down the turret barrel, killing the entire crew but yeeting out the commander. Leading to a final evil villain speech, vengeance for his people, something something turning his home into a Walmart parking lot, whatever, while aiming his desert eagle at the kid, and upon the moment he finishes talking and says something cheesy like "From river to the sea, Israel will... be... free" cocks hammer "from... you", cut to a scene inside the burning tank to the driver slumping forward enough to miraculously set the tank into a full speed charge right into the lead villain, and having him get ran over by his own burning tank.
End scene with family, credits start rolling, get a secret scene with that one dude that got yeeted into the tunnels earlier finally emerging free into the night sky only to discover its a full-on party celebrating the kid saving everyone's homes, with the music stopping and everyone turning to look at him like "wtf?" With dipshit going "oh fuck", a tense moment passes, dude says "I surrender" with hands raised, the crowd approaches and when you think they're about to tear him limb from limb, the scene cuts to everyone partying again, the family of Kevin all laughing and having fun, a short scene of the newly captured dipshit stripped of his gear and uniform dancing like an absolute white-boy loser to everyone delight, and the party keeps going with food being enjoyed, fun being had, and the final shot on a happy Kevin with the scene slowly fading to black and the true boring credits roll.
Don't tell nextfilx about this...
Netflix twist they make it about a brave Israeli boy stranded on October 7th as hamas werewolves bay for his blood
I'd put my money on them making it instead a story of "brave palestinian boy against totalitarian Hamas" and then refuse to mention the israeli occupation
thats more liberal's speed
This would unironically be my favorite movie of all time